Nearly all editing operations happen at the location of the editing cursor.
This cursor appears as a solid block. The simplest mechanism of moving the
cursor is simply use the left mouse button. Alternatively the following keys
can be used.

Left arrow or Control b Move left one base
Right arrow or Control f Move right one base
Up arrow or Control p Move up one base
Down arrow or Control n Move down one base
Control a Move editing cursor to start of used
Control e Move editing cursor to end of used
Meta a Move editing cursor to start of cutoff
Meta e Move editing cursor to end of cutoff
Meta < Move editing cursor to start of contig
Meta > Move editing cursor to end of contig

The difference between the last four Control and Meta key combinations
depends on whether "Cutoffs" is set. If it is then "Control a"
will move to the start of the used data for this reading and "Meta a"
will move to the start of the cutoff data for this reading. Otherwise
they both move to the same point (the used data start). Similarly for
"Control e" and "Meta e". The action of these four key presses in the
consensus line is simply to move to the start or end of the entire
consensus sequence.

The cursor can be placed on any sequence data shown in the editor except
for the status lines.

This page is maintained by
James Bonfield.
Last generated on 2 Febuary 1999.
URL: http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pubseq/manual/gap4_49.html